Razor blade container



June 14, 1932. sw

RAZOR BLADE CONTAINER Filed July 5, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet g: INVENTOE ATTORNEY June 14, 1932. H. SWAN 1,863,074

RAZOR BLADE CONTAINER Filed July 5. 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 g. 5. lg. 5 9 a 8 j L 3/ ZZLMZZQW 32 ATTORNEY i l 33 INVENTOR Patented June 14, 1932 PATENT OFFICE HARRY SWAN, on NEW YORK, 11. Y.

RAZOR BLADE CONTAINER Application filed July 5, 1929, Serial No. 376,119, and in Great Britain December 10, 1926.

.My invention relates to containers for holding razor blades and particularly safety razor blades.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a razor blade container which will fully protect the cutting edges of razor blades contained therein. A further object of the invention is to provide a razor blade container which is handy in use, neat in appearance and which aids in the packing of razor blades.

Further objects and the nature and advantages of the invention will become apparent from consideration of the following description taken in conjunction with the accoman in drawin s showin several forms of,

y o g the invention, which drawings form a part of this specification.

Of the illustrations:

Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view taken on the, line 11 of Fig. 2 showing a razor blade container in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional View taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a top view of the blade carrier;

Fig. 5 is a top View of a piece of cardboard which serves to protect the blade;

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 66 of Fig. 7 showing a blade as wrapped in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 7 is a top view of a wrapped blade;

3 Fig. 8 is a crosssectional view taken on the P line 88 of Fig. 9 showing a structure forming part of a modified form of the invention;

Fig. 9 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 99 of Fig. 8; I

Fig. 10 is a bottom view of the structure shown in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9;

Fig. 11 is a top View of the blade carrier used in connection with the structure shown in Fig. 10;

Fig. 12 is a side View of the blade carrier shown in Fig. 11;

Fig. 13 is an end View of the container comprising the parts shown individually in Figs. 8 to 12 inclusive; and

Fig. 14 is a cross-sectional view taken' on' the line 14-14 of Fig. 13.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 through 7 inclusive, reference character 10 designates a box-like outer member forming part of the normal container. Member 10 is closed at the ends and is formed of two telescoping parts 11 and 12. Part 11 slides within part 12 to close the container. Member 10 is made of thin gauge metal. Theparts are made so as to have a sufficiently tight fit so that the part 11 will not easily slip out from the part 12.

Fitted into the inner member 10 is a blade carrier 13 comprising a base plate 14 and vertical posts 15. The blade carrier may be stamped or formed out of one piece of metal. Posts 15 are centrally disposed and so spaced as to fit through holes 16 and 17 in razor blade 18. The base 14 of the blade carrier sets on the bottom of the outer member 10 as shown in Fig. 1. As shown in F ig.-1, the posts do not extend quite to the top of member 10.

Each blade is wrapped by being placed on a sheet of cardboard 19 as shown in Fig. 5. This piece of cardboard has holes 20 and 21 therein aligned with the holes in the blade. Around the cardboard and the blade is wrapped a sheet of paper 22. The cardboard extends beyond the edges of the blade as clearly shown in Fig. 6 so that the edge of the blade is away from the .paper of the Wrapping. A number of razor blades so Wrapped are slipped over the posts 15, the paper, the blade and the cardboard having aligned holes suitable for this purpose.

Projecting downwardly from the top of member 10 are projections 24. These may be formed as shown by stamping lips down from the top wall of the container. These lips are stamped down under the outside telescoping piece 25. Lips 24 serve to prevent the blades from touching the top of the outer member 10 of the container.

It will be seen that the parts cooperate so that the blade cannot touch any of the sides of the container. The posts hold the blades in position. The cardboards, together with the posts, prevent the blades from touching the paper or cutting the paper or contacting the sides of the container.

1 have also found that the provision of the blade carrier with the posts facilitates In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 8 through 14 inclusive, the container comprises an outer member 30 which is stamped out of a single piece of sheet metal and which has open ends and a longitudinally split top. The metal is formed as shown in Fig. 9 to provide downwardly extending projections 31 which serve the same purpose as projections 24 in Fig. 2. The metal isformed so that the top is resilient and bends downwardly when empty as shown in Fig. 9. The blade carrier 32 comprises a rectangular base plate and posts 33. The blade carrier carries blades in the same manner 'as the blade carrier shown in Fig. 4 except that the cardboard is on top of the .blade in the wrapping rather than below it as shown in the previous modification. (See Fig. 13.) It is preferable from a manufacturing standpoint that the blade be under the cardboard. The posts 33 have rounded tops which co-act with the slantwise extending portions 34 of projections 31 to push the top upward slightly so that it is in a horizontal plane and to hold the carrier within the outer member 30. The bottom is cut away as shown at 35 to permit removing the blade carrier from the outer member 30.

It will be seen that this container is simple to manufacture while neat in appearance and serves to adequately protect the blades by preventing them from touching any of the sides of the container.

While I have described several forms of.

the invention, it will be apparent that other forms of apparatus may embody the invention and that the invention is not limited to the forms specifically described.

What I'claim is:

1. A razor blade container for holding razor blades of the safety razor type having a plurality of holes through the same cornprising a resilient box-like outer member and a blade carrier frictionally co-oper'ating therewith, said carrier comprising a base plate and posts projecting upwardly from said base plate to pass through holes in the. blades and projections extending from the outer member toward the base plate, said projections and carrier serving to space the blades carried from all sides of said outer member.

2. A razor blade container for holding razor blades of the safety razor type having a plurality of holes through the' same comprising abox-like outer member and a blade carrier co-operating therewith, said carrier comprising a base plate adapted to rest on the bottom of said outer member and posts projecting upwardly from said base plate to pass through holes in the blades, the top of said outer member being resilient and proections extending inwardly from said top cooperating with the carrier to hold the carrier and to space the blades from said top.

3. A razor blade container comprising an outer resilient member having a centrally divided top portion and a bottom portion,

projections extending inwardly from saidtop portion, a blade carrier adapted to cooperate with said container comprising a base plate and posts, said projections serving to prevent blades carried on said blade carrier from coming in contact with the top of said outer member, said base. plate cooperating with said bottom portion and said posts cooperating with said projections to frictionaliy engage the blade carrier within said mem- 4. A razor blade container comprising an outer resilient bent plate member having a centrally divided top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion being turned under along the dividing line to form a pair of inwardly extending projections, a blade carrier adapted to cooperate with said container comprising a base plate and posts, said projections serving to prevent blades carried on said blade carrier from coming in contact with the top of said outer member, said base plate cooperating with said bottom portionv and said posts cooperating with said projec-.

7 carrier adapted to cooperate with said container comprising a base plate and posts, said projections serving to prevent blades carried on said blade carrier from coming in contact with the top of said outer member, said base plate cooperating with said bottom portion and said posts cooperating with said projections to frictionally engage the blade carrier within said member.

HARRY SWAN. 

